儿童在错误信念任务上的知识偏差

采用3种任务考查儿童在错误信念（FB）推理中是否存在知识偏差。被试为60名3—5岁幼儿,结果表明,对于3岁及4岁儿童来说,FB任务是存在知识偏差的。知识偏差的大小与年龄呈负相关关系,3岁与4岁、4岁与5岁儿童的知识偏差的大小均有显著差异。     

多种感觉信息整合的认知与神经机制研究

我们通常利用多种感觉通道的信息对周围世界进行感知,如视觉、听觉、嗅觉、前庭感觉和本体感觉信息.为了确保对环境的正确感知,大脑必须把对同一物体特征进行表征的不同感觉信息整合成一致的、稳定的信息.以往的研究证实不同感觉信息之间是以统计最优化的模式结合的.文章首先综述了在贝叶斯理论的基础上建立起来的统计最优化模型以及其行为实验验证方法.然后,介绍了相关的神经成像研究结果和具有生理意义的神经网络模型.     

南岳慧思师承考辨

天台宗的创兴历史,主要是慧思之前者,一直比较隐晦,慧思的师承成为研究此一问题的主要线索.本文根据散见各处的资料,以慧思的师承为线索,考察天台学准备阶段的主要禅师,尤其他们主要所用的禅观方法,以勾勒直接影响慧思禅行的小环境,并为北朝佛教与天台宗的研究作一准备.     

基督教会与晚清台湾的教育事业(1860-1895)

晚清三十年间(1860-1895),尽管教案频发,但英国和加拿大基督教会在台湾进行的传教事业仍然取得了一定的成功.与此同时,基督教会在台湾创办了近代教育,设立各类学校,推广白话字、创办报纸等.教会教育引进西方先进教育观念和方式,客观上对晚清台湾教育事业起到了促进作用.     

The Frequency of Suicides around Major Public Holidays: Some Surprising Findings

ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the recorded number of U.S. daily suicides, 1972–1976. The paper shows that: there is a dip in suicides on and just before major public holidays; there is a peak in suicides just after these holidays; and, the dip in suicides is somewhat larger than the peak—hence, there is a net decrease in suicides around the holidays. On balance, the holidays appear to reduce the number of suicides, not increase them, as was previously believed. In addition, previous research has focussed on the negative psychological impact of holidays. Our findings indicate that holidays have a positive component, which should be taken into account in future research.     

Attentional characteristics of different types of individuals with high self-esteem in self-threatening situations

The high self-esteem (HSE) heterogeneity hypothesis provides a new research perspective for investigating differences in the quantity and quality of different types of self-esteem. The present study adopted the emotional Stroop paradigm and the odd-one-out search task to explore how individuals with different types of self-esteem process social information in self-threatening situations. The results showed that individuals with different types of self-esteem had an attentional bias toward negative information and had different attentional biases toward angry faces in self-threatening situations. Individuals with fragile HSE and low self-esteem showed facilitated attention to angry faces and had difficulty drawing attention away from them; secure HSE individuals only showed difficulty disengaging attention from angry faces.

     

The effect of shame on anger at others: awareness of the emotion-causing events matters

Numerous studies have found that shame increases individuals’ anger at others. However, according to recent theories about the social function of shame and anger at others, it is possible that shame controls individuals’ anger at others in specific conditions. We replicated previous findings that shame increased individuals’ anger at others’ unfairness, when others were not aware of the individual’s experience of shameful events. We also found for the first time that shame controlled or even decreased individuals’ anger at others’ unfairness, when others were aware of the individual’s experience of shameful events. The results were consistent when shame was induced by either a recall paradigm or an imagination paradigm, and in either the ultimatum game or the dictator game. This suggests that shame strategically controls individuals’ anger at others to demonstrate that they are willing to benefit others, when facing the risk of social exclusion. Our findings highlight the interpersonal function of shame and deepen the understanding of the relationship between shame and anger at others.